>>3695046>ProprietaryI don't think you understand what that word means.
>BetamaxMuch better than VHS, only lost because the porn industry wanted the cheapest possible medium.
>MinidiscCompressable, stable, high density, compact, energy efficient, rewritable storage that was on sale a decade before the first ipod, if it wasn't for MP3 players it would have been the standard for music; had all the benefits of tape and cd.
>AtracAllowed ultra longplay minidisc to be a thing and was very power efficient for encoding\decoding when compared to MP3 or other existing pc based file formats; the only proprietary tech you have mentioned.
>Memory sticksYou mean the pre-cursors to sd cards? How dare they improve their product to the point it becomes a global standard.
>Blu-ray needs software to run >:(Ah, you're a fucking moron.
